I have had relative success (though not tested long term) by enabling noapic and nomodeset as kernel command line options. Without those two, my X would freeze up almost instantly at the login screen. With those two, I was able to boot, log in, and run through multiple windows (including one full 1080p video playback).
However, all of this was accomplished on Ubuntu 13.10.
I have had relative success (though not tested long term) by enabling noapic and nomodeset as kernel command line options. Without those two, my X would freeze up almost instantly at the login screen. With those two, I was able to boot, log in, and run through multiple windows (including one full 1080p video playback).
However, all of this was accomplished on Ubuntu 13.10.
Edit /etc/default/grub and include:
GRUB_ CMDLINE_ LINUX_DEFAULT= "quiet splash noapic nomodeset"
Then run sudo update-grub and reboot
Since then, things seem to be running quite well.
Here are the nvidia packages I have installed:
iB nvidia-319-updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module a settings- 319-updates - Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics d
i A nvidia-